Site updated 30 MARCH 2007 WRITINGS BY MARK BEAUMONT OF ARTS PLANE REVIEWS; SYNAESTHESIA CONTINUED
These 20 categories are not, of course, confined to those with synaesthesia: What Marks called synaesthetic metaphor, as experienced in the everyday life of non synaesthetes can also be divided up in this way. To speak of 'a warm colour', for example, is to have touch as a secondary reference and vision as the primary reference or trigger. A profound question which occupied much of my investigation into this in the course of my PhD thesis is this. If red is a warm colour and blue a cold colour, to give but one example, is this as a result of some kind of universal mental linkage or is it simply convention?
Jewanski in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001)distinguished synaesthesia from, what he called, intermodal construction' by suggesting that synaethesia is innate and not acquired, that cross modal sensations will remain the same throughout a lifetime, that secondary sensations always oocur and that the synaesthete has no voluntary control over them, and finally that the triggers are unique to each synaesthete. These suggestions are supported by scientific research into synaesthesia
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